Jack Nicholson Quotes
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.
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I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.
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People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
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I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of my closest friends from the LGBT community. My father, a minister from New Jersey, shaped my view that love is love, that we are all equal.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
